What even determines a potential RC3 release? Is it dependent on the bugs that early adopters report?

They have a list of existing bugs that are tied to the milestone for RC3. If any new bugs are found (not that this is likely to happen, nosirree) then someone would have to decide whether to tie them to the RC3 milestone or leave them for Final. Presumably that decision would be made on the basis of such technical considerations as "How much poo are we likely to be in if we put this one off until Final?" and "How much poo are we likely to be in if we attempt to deal with this one for RC3?".

Does RC2 resolve the various issues with custom smileys that had been reported?I am waiting until I'm told the smileys are working before I implement a bunch of custom ones on my forum.

See for yourself.

Go to the GitHub repository, click on the Issues tab, and search for "is:issue label:Smileys" in the Filters field. That'll show you the current status of all issues (both open and closed) related to smileys. If you want to see the status of pull requests related to smileys as well, drop the "is:issue" part from your filters.

Logged

I promise you nothing.Sesqu... Sesqui... what?Sesquipedalian, the best word in the English language.

Does RC2 resolve the various issues with custom smileys that had been reported?I am waiting until I'm told the smileys are working before I implement a bunch of custom ones on my forum.

See for yourself.

Go to the GitHub repository, click on the Issues tab, and search for "is:issue label:Smileys" in the Filters field. That'll show you the current status of all issues (both open and closed) related to smileys. If you want to see the status of pull requests related to smileys as well, drop the "is:issue" part from your filters.

GitHub scares me, or rather intimidates me. I have totally no idea how it works, I appreciate your guidance but I'm wondering if there's a simple answer to this specific question:

"If I install a custom smiley set on my 2.1 RC2 forum, will that continue to work as upgrades occur?"

Another way to phrase this would be "Is it safe to install a custom smiley set without the likelihood of losing it subsequently?"

Logged

Please do not PM, IM or Email me with questions on astrophysics or theology. You will get better and faster responses by asking homeless people in the street. Thank you.

To paraphrase Kindred: "There are no technical solutions to social problems."

Presumably that decision would be made on the basis of such technical considerations as "How much poo are we likely to be in if we put this one off until Final?" and "How much poo are we likely to be in if we attempt to deal with this one for RC3?".

GitHub scares me, or rather intimidates me. I have totally no idea how it works, I appreciate your guidance...

It was kind of intimidating for me too, but actually, there's really nothing to it . If you register a new account, all sorts of popups will start to appear that kind of guide you through the site and on top of that, if you ever find yourself in a pickle, you can always Google your way out .

Regarding reporting bugs, it works pretty much like a regular forum. You open a new "topic" and then the devs take a look at your "post" and try to replicate the bug you reported. If they can replicate it, the bug is confirmed. If not, in most cases, the bug report is dropped, but this also depends on the seriousness of the issue and if multiple users reported the same thing, but, for some reason, the devs can't replicate the behavior, etc., etc. So, in some cases, even though bugs can't be replicated, they're not marked as "bogus" bug reports, they're just kinda left for further analysis .

Besides, you'll ease the developers jobs if you report bugs directly on GitHub. It's designed to work with code, so it's easier to see which bugs and/or feature requests have been fixed, implemented, rejected, etc. .

Logged

"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."